Patch package



Dec. 20, 1932. GRAFF 1,891,624

PATCH PACKAGE Filed Sept. 24. 1931 iii? Patented Dec. 20, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE LELAND S. GRAFF, OF ARLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE B. GRAFF COMPANY, 01 CAMBRIDGE, IIIASSACI-IUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS PATCH PACKAGE 7 Application filed September 24, 1931. Serial No. 564,772.

My invention relates to a package of gummed reinforcing patches such as are commonly manufactured with a central perforation and are adapted to be adhesively united to sheet material such as loose-leaf sheets, shipping tags, etc., so as to surround and reinforce a hole therein.

In United States Letters Patent No. 1,800,459, to Maclean, is disclosed a dispensing package for such patches wherein the patches are threaded on an elongated core or spindle which has an enlarged delivering end toward which the gummed sides of the patches face. The patches are thus successively presented for convenient attachment to sheet material as desired. When the supply of patches on the spindle has been exhausted, a new supply must be threaded thereon. I

Heretofore these patches have been placed loosely in boxes and sold in that form. The object of my invention is to provide a package or stack of patches of suitable size, and so organized with its container as to be of compact and convenient form for delivery and sale, and to be readily threaded onto a spindle and simultaneously removed from its container by a single operation.

In attaining this object I provide a multiplicity of patches with their central perforations in alignment, in the form of a stack of convenient height with regard to the length of the spindle used. In the preferred form of my invention I enclose this stack within a shell or container having at one end thereof means for engaging the bottom patch of the stack to reta n the stack within'the shell without materially obstructing or preventing insertion of the spindle into the central perforations of the patches. The opposite end of the container I provide with a lightseal which, while retaining the patches in the container until itis desired to thread them on the spindle, is readily broken to permit withdrawal of the stack as a unit and in the manner to be hereinafter described.

In the drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my package showing the top part thereof;

- Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the bottom part;

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken 7 along theline 33 of Fig. 1; and

Fi s. a and 5 are perspective views showing tie method of threading the patches on the spindle. r

. In the drawing, 2 is a stack of patches having central perforations 4. 6 is a container, preferably cylindrical as shown. The bottom of the cylinder is crimped or folded inwardly as shown at 7, diametrically restricting the cylinder and engaging the lower side of the bottom patch of the stack to retain the stack within the cylinder. The stack of patches 2 is inserted within the cylinder 6 so that the gummed sides 5 of the patches face toward the bottom or crimped end of the cylinder. The strip or seal 8 of light paper or other easily-broken material is stretched across the top of the cylinder and has its ends secured to the upper sides of the cylinder, as shown at 9, in any suitable manner, as'by an adhesive. Y

In utilizing my package in its preferred form to thread a supply of patches upon a core or spindle, the receiving end 11 of the spindle 10 is inserted from the bottomor crimped end of the cylinder into the perforations 4 of the patches constituting the stack 2. The spindle is pushed upthrough the stack of patches until the receiving end emerges from the top of the cylinder and breaks the seal 8, as shown in Fig. 4. The receiving end 11 of the spindle may then be grasped and the spindle pulled completely through the cylinder 6. The enlarged delivery end 12 of the spindle is slightly greater in diameter than the perforations 4 ofthe patches. Thus when this enlarged end comes in contact with the bottom patch, it will engage-the same around the circumference of the perforation, and the entire stack of patches will be withdrawn from the con-v tainer as shown in Fig. 5. Since the gummed faces of the patches face toward: the bottom or crimpedend of the container,- the result of this operation is that the stack of patches is now entirely threaded on the spindle with the gummed sides of thepatches facing the delivery end of the spindle, in position for immediate use.

lVhile I have described a preferred form of my package, it would be possible to stretch across the top of the cylinder a material not easily broken, but so attached that it could be readily detached to permit the withdrawal of the stack of patches by the spindle. The bottom end of the cylinder might be partially closed so as to retain the patches therein by means other than crimping, or it might even be completely closed, as with an easily-broken or punctured material, so long as the insertion of the spindle is not interfered with.

What I claim is:

1. A tubular container enclosing a stack of perforated patches, having one end thereof circumferentially restricted to retain a stack of patches therein without obstructing the perforation in the bottom patch, and having at the opposite end a light, easily-broken seal.

2. A package comprising a stack of patches in position to be threaded on a core, contained Within a tube having at one end thereof means for engaging the end wafer of the stack and at the opposite end thereof a light, easily-broken seal.

8. As an article of manufacture, a stack of patches in position to be threaded on a spindle, enclosed in a container crimped at one end to retain the patches therein and having secured across the oppositeend a strip of a light and easily-broken material.

4. A package comprising a stack of gummed patches contained within a tube having at that end thereof toward which the gummed sides of the patches face means for engaging the end patch of the stack, and at the end thereof toward which the ungummed sides of the patches face a light, easily-broken seal.

5. A package comprising a stack of gummed patches in position to be threaded on a spindle, contained within a container having'that end thereof toward which the gummed sides of the patches face partially closed but open in the center and having across its opposite end a strip of a light, easily-broken material.

6. A package comprising a stack of patches in position to be threaded on a spindle, contained within a tube having at one end thereof means for engaging the end water of the stack, and at the opposite end thereof readily-detachable means for retaining the patches Within the tube.

7. A package comprising a stack of patches in position to be threaded on a spindle, enclosed in a container and retained therein by a constriction at one end of the container and by a readily-detachable strip at the opposite end.

8. A package comprising a stack of patches in position to be threaded on a spindle, enclosed in a container circumferentially restricted at one end only and having across the opposite end a light, easily-broken seal.

9. A package comprising a stack of perforated patches gummed on one side and having their gummed sides facing in the same direction, contained Within a container having at that end thereof toward which the gummed sides of the patches face means for engaging the end patch of the stack without materially obstructing the perforation in the bottom patch, and at the opposite end thereof a light easily-broken seal.

10. A package comprising a stack of gummed and perforated patches in position to be threaded on a spindle, the gummed sides of said patches facing in the same direction, said stack being contained within a container which is circumferentially restricted at that end thereof toward which the gummed sides of the patches face and has at which is crimped at that end thereof toward which the gummed sides of the patches face and has at the end toward which the ungummed sides of the patches face easily detachable means for confining the stack of patches within the container.

LELAND S. GRAFF. 

